different between peavy vs leavy

English

Alternative forms

• peavey

Etymology

After Joseph Peavey, a blacksmith from Maine in the United States of America.

Noun

peavy (plural peavies)

1. A tool used to manipulate logs, having a thick wooden handle, a steel point, and a curved hooked arm. Similar to a cant-hook, but shorter and stouter, and with a pointed end.

Synonyms

• (tool): dog hook, cant dog, cant hook, peavey hook

Translations

See also

• Peavey (tool) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• peavy on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Pavey

English

Adjective

leavy (comparative leavier, superlative leaviest)

1. Archaic form of leafy.
   • 1567, Arthur Golding (translator), The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 3,^[1]

     Within the furthest end thereof there was a pleasant Bowre

     So vaulted with the leauie trées the Sunne had there no powre:

   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 6, First Folio, 1623, p. 150,^[2]

     Now neere enough:

     Your leauy Skreenes throw downe,

     And shew like those you are […]

   • 1758, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Edinburgh, Canto 2, p. 20,^[3]

     Thus when devouring hatchet-men invade,

     With sounding steel, the forest’s leavy head,

     The mountains ring with their repeated strokes;

Derived terms

• leaviness

Anagrams

• Alvey, Lavey, Leyva, vealy